BBC under fire over Amsterdam attack coverage

Football fans are known to get a little rowdy after a game, but the horror that broke out after the Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax game on Thursday night was an entirely different matter. As Jonathan Sacerdoti wrote for the Spectator today, hundreds of Jews were hunted and beaten by mobs after the game while videos of the violence quickly spread across social media, leaving users horrified at the Amsterdam attacks. Yet for some rather peculiar reason, mainstream broadcasters were not quite as fast to report on the matter as one might have expected – with the Beeb in particular notably slow to the news, with readers taking to Twitter to blast both the delay to the public service broadcaster’s reporting and the language used to describe the attacks. Good heavens…

Last night, social media users slammed the Beeb for what seemed like ‘complete radio silence’ on the matter, while the broadcaster was criticised over its reporting of ‘rude, anti-Palestinian slogans’ in Amsterdam.